Wake up, it's Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument's birthday! 🎉
Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument is the single largest fully-protected conservation area in the world. It encompasses 582,578 square miles of the Pacific Ocean (1,508,870 square kilometers) – an area nearly the size of the Gulf of Mexico. The Monument, created expressly to protect an exceptional array of natural and cultural resources, was established by Presidential Proclamation 8031 on June 15, 2006 and expanded by Presidential Proclamation 9478 on August 26, 2016 under the authority of the Antiquities Act (16 U.S.C. 431-433). It is the United States' only mixed (natural and cultural) UNESCO World Heritage Site, recognized for both its cultural and natural significance.
I have this idea that if we can share with others how to “Malama” our Mothers many of the Mothers today and possibly tomorrow can enjoy a better quality of life.
Too many Mothers are in abusive relationships
Too many Mothers go without support
Too many Mothers suffer in silence
Too many children see this suffering through tears of their own.
To “Malama” means to “Care for”
Let us Malama our…
gus finally got to meet natia’s 3 siblings and her parents and they really like him! the party went on all night but elisapeta couldn’t keep up with the adults
Hi! Do you have any photos of Tatiana Nikolaevna with Dmitri Malama? It is for an edit and I only have two but I need a couple more. I’m digging through Tatya’s albums but i am having no luck identifying him. Thank you!
It's definitely difficult trying to identify him, he of course looks a lot more frail in the photos with Tatiana that in his uniform, but I've tried my best and included some photos I've tentatively identified as him. Here are also some photos that are confirmed to be him, for comparison. Also, he was a cutie!
Most of these photos are either from Tatiana's 1916 album, or Anna Vyrubova's album
With Tatiana - he is on the far left on all these photos
On the far left, sat behind a very happy and adorable Tatiana, and next to Tatiana in the wheelchair (I think!)
Sat behind Olga. Sadly, poor Tatiana got cropped out of this photo in their album :( And again next to Vera Gedroitz (centre), sat on the left
^^ Stood next to Tatiana, smiling! He signed this photograph with 'Kornet Malama', his rank and surname
With other officers and wounded:
On the far right in white and stood behind Anna Vyrubova. Not sure if the third photo of the man in bed is him or not, but there is some resemblance imo so I put it in :)
He is also featured on this magazine/newspaper cover that depict some of the 'first heroes of the Great War', published in August 1915. Dmitri is number 25.
Photos that I often see identified as Malama, but personally I don't see much of a resemblance, but that could just be me! However, in the last photo he is having some form of medical procedure on his leg, which would correlate with the photos of him in a wheelchair. Tatiana wrote something above the photo of the man, but her handwriting... yeah it's too hard for me to read haha, it looks a bit like a T?
I'm going to leave the decision of whether this young man is Malama up to you :)
I also found this photo of Dr. Vera Gedroitz looking SO stressed, which was too funny not to include. Bless her haha, she needed a holiday.
There is also a Russian wikipedia page for him with FABULOUS information, including this note from a fellow patient which said 'Tatyana Nikolaevna always sat near Malama' - so cute!! There is also this photoshop and colourisation by Tatiana Z which might be helpful when translated through google!
I can't help but think about how Alix once wrote that 'he would make an excellent son-in-law'. Perhaps in another universe...
Thursday, 6 November. ...Went to Anya's for tea. Iedigarov, Kudrev, Gordinsky and N.P. arrived. Then darling Malama. Was terribly happy to see him. Later looked at the album with him. Drove them to the station in the motor. It was awfully nice, and most importantly, darling Malama was here...'
— The Diary of Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia
Made my me using IMovie :)
(Thank you to @otmaaromanovas for helping me find the quote!!)
Dmitri Yakovlevich Malama in the Tsarsko-Selo infirmary (lying), autumn 1914. Tatiana Nikolaevna standing next to Malama’s hospital bed. Olga Nikolaevna is sitting near his feet